Does anyone know a site or have the text for the translation of Mark Antony's funeral speech for Caesar into modern day english?
2007-12-06 12:50:02 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
We're doing that in class right now. I can tell you what it's about generally. the one where Marc Antony first sees Caesar's dead body, he vows that that the killer of such a noble and majestic man will pay. The speech he makes to the people of Rome plays upon the Romans love of Caesar to turn against Brutus (especially but also the other conspirators) he uses parallelism to portray Brutus as a murdering a**hole who wanted Caesars power for himslef. I'm not sure which one you need so there's both.
2007-12-09 15:54:59 · answer #1 · answered by chixrul16 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
why?, it is perfectly clear. Shakespeare, to the shock of many, wrote modern English and improved it by inventing many new words and figures of speech that we still use today.The very idea of paraphrasing dialogue is a dumb one. The actor has to speak the line, not the paraphrase. The reader, if he follows the punctuation and thinks about it a little, can understand Shakespeare quite well.
2007-12-06 15:02:19 · answer #2 · answered by Theatre Doc 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋